"... a fine, fine work of musical art by an artist at the height of his musical powers ...
this recording will secure his place as a musical legend" ~ Mary Gauthier

"... Geoff Bartley has hit another one out of the park" ~ Tom Paxton

These songs are pre-war and modern blues, primitive jazz, music from the southern mountains, and folk songs produced with acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, harmonica, dobro, flugelhorn, bass and vocal harmonies. There are electric guitar and drums on one. Mercy for the Dispossessed and Painted Pony are instrumentals.